Café Review 2019 Fall Maine 30th Anniversary Issue

Our latest Fall 2019 30th Anniversary Issue of The Café Review continues our mission to bring Maine poetry to the world and poetry from around the world to Maine featuring poetry by Maine poets Linda Aldrich, Katherine Hagopian Berry, Jim Bishop, Mike Bove, Bobby Breen, Linda Buckmaster, Dennis Camire, Bill Carpenter, Kristen Case, Kathleen Ellis, Tom Fallon, Robert Farnsworth, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Richard Foerster, Shirley Glubka, Terry Grasse, Gary Lawless, Valerie Lawson, Carl Little, Steve Luttrell, J. E. Mason, Rev. Joseph R. McKenna, Mark Melnicove, Kendall Merriam, Claire Millikin, Jacqueline Moore, Leslie Moore, Thomas R. Moore, Pat Murphy, Marita O’Neill, Lucia Owen, Stephen Petroff, Dawn Potter, Bruce Pratt, Gary Rainford, Patricia Smith Ranzoni, Edward J. Rielly, Kenneth Rosen, Russ Sargent, Annie Seikonia, Lee Sharkey, Betsy Sholl, Craig Sipe, Pam Burr Smith, Martin Steingesser, Kathleen Sullivan, Ellen Taylor, Richard Taylor, Jeffrey Thomson, Elizabeth Tibbetts and George V. Van Deventer. This issue features work by artists Wayne Atherton, Josefina Auslender, Dozier Bell, Robert N. Cohen, Maury Colton, Shelia Geoffrion, Roy Germon, Krista Heatley, Ed King, Jocelyn Lee, Winky Lewis, George Lloyd, Rose Marasco, Petrea Noyes, Stephen Petroff, Steve Priestley, Noriko Sakanishi, Abby Shahn, Michael Waterman, Pamela DuLong Williams, Richard Wilson, Timothy Powers Wilson, Jaime Wing, Bia Winter, J. S. Woodfish and Jay York with reviews by Jim Bishop, Jeri Theriault and Dana Wilde.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue

Time

Duck and Cover

Cold Begins

Granada

Tonic 4 (Thoreau)

Tonic 3 (Daphne)

In One Scenario

Making a Meal of Receding Footsteps

Self-Portrait: Connemara

Underground Railroad

Vena Cava

Easter Dinner

In the Woods

Maine Stone

Nude Piano

Burn

Fedora

Cove St. Trivia

The Regret of the Poet after sending Work to a Magazine

Scrap Memories

Rockland Lady: A Love Rap

Mrs. C. and the Social Worker

Galileo’s Middle Finger in the Museo Galileo, Florence

Making Nothing: So Much Depends

Clone

The River

Meditation on the Guitar’s Wood

A Delight and a Lament

Properties of Fracture

End of Summer

Moose in April

End Times

Outward Bound

Squander

Benny’s Home Stores Closing

Markings; Double-stitching

Red Apologia

A Scrap of Paper

Mendelssohn’s Bicycle

Lavabo

Next Spring, Or, If February Wouldn’t Pass,

Coming Home from the Far Field

All This October.

Spoiler Alert

Night Comes On

Seasonal

Christina’s World

The Little Birds Keep Singing

Metaphysics in the Time of Trump

In Dream the Human Heart Breaks Open

Dwelling

III

In the Veterans’ Home

The Deluge

Yes, We Have the Tricycle

Dancing with Bach

A Late Night Mouse

Body by the Side of the Road

My Father in Texas

Home

A walk in the woods

Entanglement

Middle Ground at Katahdin

Cat on the Wing

Three Postcards from a Walk Through the South of England

Bon Appetit!

Sunflower Apostasy*

Fit as a Fiddle

My Father’s Seed

Soul Song

No Service

Ben

Family Reunion with Browntail Moth Caterpillars

Glukopikron; Sweet-Bitter
Artist Biographies

Wayne Atherton

Josefina Auslender

Dozier Bell

Robert N. Cohen

Maury Colton

Shelia Geoffrion

Roy Germon

Krista Heatley

Ed King

Jocelyn Lee

Winky Lewis

George Lloyd

Rose Marasco

Petrea Noyes

Stephen Petroff

Steve Priestly

Noriko Sakanishi

Abby Shahn

Michael Waterman

Pamela duLong Williams

Richard Wilson

Timothy Powers Wilson

Jaime Wing

Bia Winter

John Strom

Jay York
Poet Biographies

George V. Van Deventer

Elizabeth Tibbetts

Jeffrey Thomson

Richard Taylor

Ellen M. Taylor

Kathleen Sullivan

Martin Steingesser

Pam Burr Smith

Craig Sipe

Betsy Sholl

Lee Sharkey

Annie Seikonia

Russ Sargent

Kenneth Rosen

Edward J. Rielly

Patricia Smith Ranzoni

Gary Rainford

Bruce Pratt

Dawn Potter

Stephen Petroff

Lucia Owen

Marita O’Neill

Pat Murphy

Thomas R. Moore

Leslie Moore

Jacqueline Moore

Claire Millikin

Kendall Merriam

Mark Melnicove

Rev. Joe McKenna

J.E. Mason

Steve Luttrell

Carl Little

Valerie Lawson

Gary Lawless

Terry Grasse

Shirley Glubka

Richard Foerster

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Robert Farnsworth

Tom Fallon

Kathleen Ellis

Kristen Case

Bill Carpenter

Dennis Camire

Linda Buckmaster

Bobby Breen

Mike Bove

Jim Bishop

Katherine Hagopian Berry
